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A48430 A thanksgiving sermon preached at Christ-Church before the lords justices and council upon the 23 of October, 1661, by W.L., D.D., chaunter of Christ-Church, Dublin. Lightburn, William. 1661 (1661) Wing L2050; ESTC R37978 22,325 29

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from heaven the stars in their courses fought against Sisera The river Kishon swept them away that antient River the River Kishon O my soul thou hast troden down strength Then Seaventhly for the better expression of their thankfulness for such mercyes and deliverances that they might be transmitted and handed over to all posterity and generations and that the people that were unborn might praise the Lord it was usuall and ordinary with them to put some remarkable signe or token of remembrance upon the particular mercy and deliverance which they had received or upon the place where they received it by giving it a name that did import and signifye the same that so when their children or their childrens children should in time to come ask the reason why is this thing or this place called by this name then their fathers might preach unto them the gracious deliverance of the Church in that thing or that place and make rehearsall repetition of the righteous Acts of the Lord thus the Lord instructed them in the ordinance of the Passeover Exod. 12.25 it was called the Passeover because the Lord commanded the destroying Angel to passe over the houses of Israel when he slew all the first born of the Egyptians And it shall come to passe saith the text when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised that ye shall keepe this service And it shall come to passe when your children shall say unto you what mean you by this service that ye shall say it is the sacrifice of the Lords Passeover who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses Hebr. Pasch from Pasach that is to leape or Passeover And when the waters of Jordan were cut off or divided that the people might passe into the land of promise Josua commanded for a perpetual remembranise f this Act to all posterity that twelve men that is one out of every tribe of Israel should take a great stone out of midst of Jordan and set them up upon a heap upon that place which was dried up for their passage that when the generations to come should ask what means this great heap of stones then the fathers might preach to their children the righteous Acts of the Lord and by reviving the memorial of that wonderfull mercy stir them up to praise the Lord. Jos. 4.6 The Lord gave Israel a great deliverance from their enemies by the hand of Samson first Samson returned thanks Lord thou hast given this great deliverance to thy servant and then he puts a name upon the place for a Memorandum to posterity he calls it Jud. 15.17 Ramath Lehi that is the lifting up of the jaw bone that when the generations to come should inquire why is this place called Ramath Lehi then their fathers might preach unto them the righteous Acts of the Lord shew them the greatnesse of the deliverance by the weaknesse of the meanes So Israels great deliverance from the enemy that surrounded and compassed them about David thankfully ascribes unto the Lord the Lord saith he ha●h broken in upon mine enemies like the breach of waters and then he gives a name to the place for a Memorandum to Posterity he calls it Baal-Perazim that is the plaine of breaches 2. Sam. 5.20 That when the children in time to come should inquire why is this place called Baal-Perazim then their fathers might teach them the great mercies of God towards Israel and say unto them in this place the enemy compassed us about and thought to swallow us up quick and here the Lord broke in upon them like the breach of waters and therefore this place is called Baal-Perazim the plain of breaches The like may be said of Samuel when the Lord had delivered Israel from the Army of the Philistins not by sword or by bow or by battle but by thunder from heaven then Samuel set up a great pillar of stone for a memorial to all generations and gives it a name he called it Eben-Ezer that is the stone of help saying thus far the Lord hath helped us 1. Sam. 7.12 And after that Jehosaphat had received a notable deliverance from the numerous Army of the Ammonites the Moabites and the Edomites that came against Juda not by fighting but by singing and praising God 2. Chr. 20.21.23 That the memoriall of so great a deliverance might be perpetuated to all posterity he put a name upon the place and called it Berachah that is blessing and so that valley was called the valley of blessing that when their children in time to come c. Eightly they expressed their thankfulness by erecting of Altars as Moses Exo. 17.14 and Gideon Jud. 6.24 and Josua Jos 8.30 and others Ninethly They did not onely blesse God for their deliverances and build Altars and erect great pillars and monuments but also they writ whole Rolles Bookes and volumes of their deliverances for the instruction of future generations and thus the Lord commanded Moses to write Israels deliverance from the lying in wait of Amelek the first enemy that affronted them after their coming out of Egypt Jos 17.14 The Lord said unto Moses write this for a Memorial in a book the Lord will have written and recorded not onely what Amalek did to Israel but also what the God of Israel did to Amalek for a Memorial to Israel for instruction to posterity that the generations to come might praise the Lord. Thus Israels deliverance from the Amorites and the wonderfull Acting of the Lord in order thereunto they recorded in a booke for the benefit of posterity Jos 10.13 The Sun stood still in Gibeon and the Moone in the valley of Ajalon till the people were avenged of their enemies Is not this written in the booke of Jasher The great deliverance of Israel in the red sea and the wonders which the Lord wrought in the brooks of Arnon were recorded for a Memorial to posterity in the booke of the warrs of the Lord. Num. 21.14 It is sayd in the booke of the warrs of the Lord what he did in the red sea and in the brooks of Arnon And at the streame of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar and lyeth upon the border of Moab The vulgar latine reads the rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar and lye in the borders of moab upon which the do way translators comment thus A the Egyptians were drowned in the sea so the Amorites were oppressed with the rocks falling upon them and the waters carried their carcases into the valley of Moab This was recorded in the book of the warrs of the Lord. And thus they writ volumes and books of their deliverances for an everlasting Memorial to all posterity And was it thus with our fathers and the people of God informer ages then surely whatsoever things were written a foretime